https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Index ${session.getAttribute("locale")} 5 https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:5793 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:44:56 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:5796 Sat 24 Mar 2018 07:44:53 AEDT ]]> https://nova.newcastle.edu.au/vital/access/manager/Repository/uon:181 FOG > SO, and slow-twitch always > slow-tonic. In terms of weighted cross-sectional area, which provides a coarse-grain measure of each fiber type's potential contribution to whole muscle force, all five muscles exhibited a higher Fg and lower SO contribution to cross-sectional area than suggested by their corresponding fiber-type prevalence. This was also the case for the slow-twitch vs. slow-tonic fibers. We conclude that slow-tonic fibers are widespread in turtle muscle. The weighted cross-sectional area evidence suggested, however, that their contribution to force generation is minor except in highly oxidative muscles, with a special functional role, like TeC4. There is discussion of: 1) the relationship between the present results and previous work on homologous neck and hindlimb muscles in other nonmammalian species, and 2) the potential motoneuronal innervation of slow-tonic fibers in turtle hindlimb muscles. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.]]> Mon 24 Sep 2018 16:14:33 AEST ]]>